In TRYING BEAUTY, artist Camilla Howalt reflects on the tactile and emotional resonance of texture and colour. Through the lens of cracked earth and in-between spaces, she explores how visual elements open up zones of ambiguity, tension, and sensory engagement - where perception becomes relational, and beauty is something to be felt as much as seen.
Visual Artist
After graduating with First-Class Honours from Wimbledon School of Art and completing an MA at Kingston University’s Center for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Camilla Howalt (b.1968) established her Malmö-based studio in 2021. Her practice focuses on creating prints and original artworks that blend photography, painting, and digital techniques.
Working across painting, textile-based media, and photography to explore perception, materiality, and fragmentation, her work traces the ways pain - physical, emotional, existential - inscribes itself onto surfaces, bodies, and spaces. Through mapped and layered textures, she investigates how presence unfolds in the tension between sensuality, introspection, and abstraction.
Camilla’s work is part of private collections across Europe, and her prints are available for purchase, bringing her distinct, contemplative style into homes and spaces looking for both aesthetic and thoughtful engagement.
